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May 25th, 2013: Laserblast (1978)

Leave a comment Posted in So-Bad-It's-Good, Sci-Fi, Horror, Possession, Aliens, Movie of the Day, Independent, Stop Motion Animation, Juvenile Delinquent Tagged Drive-In, Roddy McDowall, rip-off, cash-in, teens, low-budget, the declining years, Eddie Deezen, Keenan Wynn, Charles Band, Richard Band, alien possession, Ron Masak, alien weapon

May 24th, 2013: I Bury the Living (1958)

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Leave a comment Posted in "Let's Drive X Mad", Adaptation, Based on a Short Story(ies), Black and White, Horror, Independent, Movie of the Day, Revenge, Thriller Tagged Drive-In, insanity, low-budget, before they were famous, superstition, Richard Boone, cemetery, "are they mad or...", Albert Band, Louis Garfinkle, board, board member, map, retirement

May 20th, 2013: The House that Dripped Blood

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Leave a comment Posted in Anthology, Comedy, Horror, Movie of the Day, Spoof, Vampires, Wax Museum, Witches Tagged twist, cursed objects, Amicus, Peter Cushing, low-budget, it's not over, Britain, Christopher Lee, Denholm Elliott, film within a film, overbearing father, abandoned house, father-daugther relationship, cops, filmmaking, Joanna Lumley, writer, Joss Ackland, Ingrid Pitt, Jon Pertwee, Scotland Yard

May 17th, 2013: Easy Rider (1969)

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2 Comments Posted in Arthouse, Buddy Flick, Drama, Movie of the Day, Road Trip Tagged ACLU, Bridget Fonda, brothel, cameos, Carrie Snodgress, cemetery, cocaine, commune, Dan Haggerty, Deep South, Dennis Hopper, drugs, farmers, hippies, Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, Laszlo Kovacs, lawyers, Los Angeles, LSD, Mardi Gras, Mexico, motorcycle, New Orleans, Peter Fonda, Phil Spector, prostitutes, rednecks, Terry Southern, Toni Basil

May 16th, 2013: Desperado (1995)

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Crime, Event Film, Movie of the Day, Remake, Revenge, Sequel Tagged Antonio Banderas, Cheech Marin, Columbia Pictures, Danny Trejo, drug dealers, hit man, knives, mariachi, Mexico, Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, Salma Hayek, Steve Buscemi, triple threat

May 15th, 2013: Blood Feast (1963)

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2 Comments Posted in Cults, Horror, Independent, Movie of the Day, Serial Killer, Slasher, So-Bad-It's-Good, The Original, Thriller Tagged beach, caterer, Connie Mason, cops, David F. Friedman, Drive-In, dump truck, Egyptians, feast, gore, grindhouse, H.G. Lewis, incompetent cops, Ishtar, Miami, Playboy bunnies turned actresses, plot specific radio, serial killer

May 12th, 2013: Saving Private Perez

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Fish-Out-of-Water, Gangster, Independent, Movie of the Day, Slapstick, Special Operations, Spoof, Suicide Mission, War Movies Tagged brothers, childhood friend, drug dealers, drug smuggler, Guerrillas, hit man, hostage, Iraq, low-budget, machetes, Mexico, mother, narcos, rescue mission, The Marines, U.S. Army, younger brother

May 10th, 2013: Mary Poppins (1964)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Animation, Based on a Book, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Movie of the Day, Musical, Period Film Tagged "England", Alan Napier, annoying children, Arthur Malet, bank, banker, before they were famous, Best Actress, Best Adapted Score Nominee, Best Adapted Screenplay Nominee, Best Art Direction Set Decoration Nominee, Best Cinematography Nominee, Best Costume Design Nominee, Best Director Nominee, Best Effects Best Visual Effects, Best Film Editing, Best Original Score, Best Original Song, Best Picture Nominee, Best Sound Nominee, chimney sweep, comedic working class, David Tomlinson, Dick Van Dyke, Disney, Ed Wynn, Elsa Lanchester, feminist, Glynis Johns, Jane Darwell, Julie Andrews, live action combined with animation, Marnie Nixon, nanny, suffragettes, terrible accent, Walt Disney

May 7th, 2013: Ghidorah, the Three Headed Monster

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Leave a comment Posted in Aliens, Cops, Crime, Dinosaurs, Disaster, Event Film, Giant Insects, Hit Man, Kaiju, Movie of the Day, Sci-Fi, Sequel, Superheroes Tagged airplane, Akihiko Hirata, Akiko Wakabayashi, Akira Ifukube, alien possession, alien warning, assassin, assassination attempt, Bad Dubbing, Cassandra, cops, Eiji Tsuburaya, Emi Ito, fishermen, Ghidorah, Godzilla, hanging from a cliff, Hiroshi Koizumi, Japan, Kenji Sahara, lady reporter, model airplane, Mothra, mountains, music summons the monster, plane crash, power outage, princess, prophecy, quotably bad dialogue, reporter, Rodan, scientists, Shinichi Sekizawa, shock treatment, Takashi Shimura, Toho, Tomoyuki Tanaka, TV show, Yosuke Natsuki, Yumi Ito, Yuriko Hoshi

May 6th, 2013: Return to Glennascaul

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Leave a comment Posted in "Foreign Film", Adaptation, Arthouse, Based on an Urban Legend, Black and White, Ghost, Horror, Independent, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Short Tagged Ireland, Orson Welles, hitchhiking, ghost story, haunted house, abandoned house, Dublin, Best Short Subject Nominee

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